oh, what the hell? she my a new other. oh, i can send more. a, you know, put them out that they give us a western countries and hope all the cop 27 climate conference to reduce the use of fossil fuels. congo is residents down their alarm. the western green agenda comes in africa expense with western countries came here with promises of changing our life. but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. do men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries? when our husbands are dying, no one cares about our situation with strengthening ties as whole. so 43 percent of indians consider russia to be new delhi. most reliable partner,

andy is foreign minister, is that to visit moscow to further strengthen bilateral ties between the state meter. thank you for your heroism. and for the record that you're shown, western media is full of praise for a member of ukraine's far right. as our battalion, just like his post glorifying naziism on social media. and we speak to a french politician who denounces ukraine's president zalinski for following washington's market policy path and reinforcing for years and years of complex. already taking its toll on countries across europe is also easily we should not move towards russians. inflation. unemployment. war for the sake of mr. zalinski is beautiful. i, for the sake of the crooked jumps around the americans poll issue with

from lost out of the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins, and these are the top stories this our we must act now. that's the message which has a lit up egyptian pyramids ahead of the united nations climate change conference opening ceremony. the spectacle though, has triggered a backlash online was questioning raise over just how green it really is. what a waste of money should have done it on zoom. all those flights, hotels, shattering lighting a pyramid could power and feed a small african nation waste. how much energy was wasted? lightning ital and unnecessary light show seems like an odd choice to tackle climate change. their conference open with the aim of ensuring the full implementation of the paris agreement. the main goal being reduction of fossil through use, u. e y makers recently agreed to ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars by 2035,

and switch to battery powered electric vehicles. however, the democratic republic of the congo is now sounding the alarm. so the d r. c is the world's largest producer of cobalt a key component for electric car batteries. most of the mines are owned by foreign countries. the sector widely uses small scale mining where dangerous working conditions and corruption are rampant. more than 40000 children work in non regulated mines in hazardous conditions. many congolese workers feel robbed by western countries which make huge profits from the industry. social, no western mining companies are working on our land boundaries game here with promises of changing our life. my giving a good job us, but this is not what is happening on the ground with us. besides taking our lands for a low price, but we don't have jobs and we remained bored, and now they are even forcing us to leave our own lands. we can not accept this at

all. do men and women benefit from the minerals and other countries when our husbands are dying because of bad conditions due to the lack of proper jobs in the big mining companies? no one cares about our situation. western countries should do more to change our situation because they're getting too much from our minerals here. one opponent, but my husband died well working in the mine and de mining company hasn't given anything, not even a note to help out. often, children, i cannot even afford for them to eat properly. there's no way to send them to school. the new law though is not actually so green as battery production now accounts for over half of global co walk consumption. electric vehicle batteries require around $120000.00 tons of the metal per year. and electric vehicle sales are predicted to increased tenfold in the coming decades. independent analysts, alca t, n g, says that african countries need to change their mindset and re benefits from their

own resources. buyers tend to put the rules on the table, but that's way african countries, the understanding that if you process and transform locally, you not in a rush to sell your products for survival. that's exactly what's going to pull the balance between these 2 with them. with some countries and africa. african convent popsicle are trying to localize the edition in africa as far as we will use to. so wrote back, especially we were just actually wasting the value and the money of the continent. and now the process is being changed a little bit. and the intention is to use more and more local direct to go on. i and a jade and trying to localize jobs and investments. and the additional locally made russia has become india's top oil supplier overtaking

conventional leaders, like saudi arabia and iraq. these figures emerge amid the upcoming visit of the indian foreign minister to moscow on monday, for talks with his russian counterpart, the visit comes amid growing ties between moscow in new delhi. recent polls show the majority of india's citizens. consider russia the country's most reliable partner agreeing that defense relations with moscow are vital for the country. respondents also set the bricks. group of states which include india and russia is the most beneficial platform for realizing the countries global interests. ortiz runjun sharma brings us more details. tindy, all foreign ministers wizard to moscow could not have come at a more important time with the world grappling with major food and energy crisis. doctor s j shanker is duty drip is aimed at expanding cooperation between the donations during a period of whilst global challenges. energy will be

a major focus off this trip, especially since the g 7 has conform plans on pushing for a price cap on russian oil. the groups moore was aimed at cutting rushes revenue, but could potentially hurt in del supplies. that's because where sanctions against russia left it deprived a russian energy. while other countries, including india expanded their trade with moscow. russia has now so passed in the ass traditional dominance suppliers, saudi arabia and iraq. as the chief supplier of its oil for any corn was ations around energy security between new delhi and moscow are becoming increasingly more and more important. despite specials from the west. india bought a phenomenal 9 lack 46000 barrels of russian crude buddy in october. it's highest ever monthly total. i don't think it will be, it will be willing to look at its energy relationship with russia,

particularly as it, as it is so important for india, political economy and the needs. and it is so important for india, strawman, man and woman are where they would like to have a oil and gas at reasonable prices. but moscow and new delhi share more than just oil, both brick spot nor, and beyond economic and cultural partnerships. they share a long history of defense corporation, as in the else foreign minister, recently himself acknowledged. we have, as you know, a substantial in men trio from soviet and crush and origin weapons, and doctrine. men cri actually grew for about 2 reasons. you know, the marriage shulty weapon systems themselves, but also because for a, for a multiple tickets. a western countries did not supply a supply weapons to india. so i think could be all in the international politics deal with what we have. and such corporations are not new or recent. so we

buy a new delhi based thing. tank o r f stress that russia has been in dales, most reliable, bought no since had gained independence. and 1947, we did a survey of the youth in which this question was us, and ashad billing, and those are so in some ways, in the, as you has looked at rush as well, and russia support and you get a shout relationship over the last 75 years and have come to the conclusion that while other countries have shipped to their support for india, and depending on the circumstances that are shown india have had that relationship spend spec good since independence and has been going on strong since then. so do you, russia has a very important factor for dan. this is what is afflicted in the survey that was done despite constant pressures by the west to curtail ties with moscow. india has a formed its relationship with russia. junkers was it amidst the shadow of the you

queen, conflict, and that's for lout. will be a significant 1. 1 that the west and the world would be closely watching. region sharma, r t, new delhi. to the latest on the ukraine conflict. now we're done. nascar city center has been hit by ukrainian forces, causing serious damage to infrastructure. ah, sure is fitted shared on social networks, showing the moment of the strike, as well as its aftermath. the local railway administration building as well as other buildings in the city center have also been hit in the shelling. no casualties have been reported so far. yeah, the allegedly shelled this city using 155 millimeters, nato caliber shells, according to local officials. it's not the only damage seen overnight you from ukrainian shelling. as many as more than 10 areas in the hearse on region were left

without electricity, only traffic lights and city lanterns are still functioning. after 3 high voltage power lines were damaged and as those attacks intensify us, mainstream media didn't hold back with praise for a member of ukraine's new nazi as our battalion who's known to have made post glorifying naziism on his social media count. tro kosicki, a soldier in ukraine's national guard was held captive in the besieged. she'll find me through thank you for your heroism and for the record that you've shown. the fighter is also giving talks to middle school students across the u. s. as of as previously posted, but now deleted tweets. the ukranian, as of soldier, was seen openly brandishing nazi symbols even going so far as to bake a swastika themed pizza. in this tree, you can see another ukrainian soldier displaying a swastika on his rucksack. the b,

b c, for example, has also featured a soldier wearing a notorious as, as nazi logo. while western media has now change its tune towards the as all battalion they didn't manage to hide their proud display of neo nazi tattoos. that comes as, despite the rise of far right groups across the world, $52.00 countries, including the u. s. voted against russia's un general assembly resolution condemning naziism, the chief editor of the finish. and the ruddy news outlet says that the numbers reflect the willingness of the west to tolerate the glorification of far right. ideology. i think the general problem here is that the western, oh, holy to call system doesn't want to recognize the difference between the battery. it's anthem nationalistic, now we are seeing nazis lecturing in the european or the western schools about,

glorifying naziism. that's i think, a step forward where unsung, where should be the border. and i think that some kind of red line has been grocer, i'm worry, afraid of the. so un voting now, what's happened? because past years, at least there has been some decency from the only the u. s. c and crane was in favor for not condemning the glorifying of, to not to be cation. and we know the reason because the usa was behind the cranium . nazis, you're all this year. so now looks like that the western countries, their allies, are willing to start to glorify the nazis as well. and well, ukraine still refuses to connect to any negotiations with moscow. the washington post is reporting that the by the administration is pushing presidents zalinski to consider peace talks with russia. u. s. officials are allegedly worried if he ever

doesn't consider negotiations. it may start losing support and the quote ukraine, the tinged west the request by american officials is not aimed at pushing ukraine to the negotiating table. these people said, rather they called it a calculated attempt to ensure the government and key of maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies, wary of feeling a war for many years to come. the article explores the rather difficult position, washington find it something has the ongoing conflict continues to cause significant damage to the global economy and energy security violence sledge to support ukraine for as long as it takes has drawn criticism from republicans and democrats alike moscow and haven't held peace talks since the early months of the conflict when the sides managed to pen a mutually acceptable treaty press secretary said, backed out unexpectedly,

most likely under washington's instruction. present. zalinski issued a decree in late september making it impossible for him to negotiate with. but the washington post article says us officials believe that key f is trying to gain a stronger military foothold before winter when it may be forced to negotiate executive vice president of the regime center or a rasp reason says that the longer he drags his feet, the more difficult, their situation could become them other i think there's a lot of conserve on the open checkbook on the flow and the mismanagement on accountability of, of where weapons and, and resources going on. if you look at europe, you've got which go very little reporting in the western media. we've got demonstrations in the hundreds of 1000 against the war, anti nato demonstrations against the economic conditions. we've got all the

negotiations on on board, but could it could have ended this and, and even before the but i do not think, i think the u. s. intention to try to break the phone as long as possible. they don't really care as far as the lives that are law. it's the geopolitical game. and ukraine just happens to have stumbled into the to deploy, being played by the, by the west. essentially. it's part of the game. i do not think the u. s. is really interested in any topic negotiated settlement. i think it'll go into negotiation. ukraine if we know it will no longer holy puppet. that's how a member of the french political lead, depicted ukraine's. vladimir zalinski accusing the president of nearing hawkish us foreign policy and dragging out the conflict and ukraine. zalinski says this morning that he is fighting against the russian iranian axis. soon he will at china,

and his foreign policy will coincidentally be a perfect vehicle of american foreign policy. that's of the hawks who want world war, holy puppet. the french politicians comment made waves on the internet as he was in turn, criticized for being a quote from one puppet believe. this incident is another example of alternative narratives in the west being slated. florian philippa president of the patriots party, says the us because washington is not keen on resolving the conflict, but pursuing its own aims. that is your voice as soon as you don't sit a gesture, in my opinion, it is impossible to continue living in a world in which the united states has too much power and seeks to dominate every thing to be a hagaman which has turned the european union france and other countries into their colonies, which turned a blind eye to the existence of developing countries in the world, such as bricks,

members and others. i'm a supporter of a multi polar whoa. i believe that it will be a balance world order without wars. and the world dominated by the united states and nato with the e. u is a world older with wars, and without any respect for all of a members of the world. community. united states has been in a state of relative decline for many decades, waging irresponsible, and often illegal was in an attempt to maintain it's a gemini, in the case of ukraine, it is obvious to me that its goal is to bring europe in countries to suicide. the claps to separate them from russia in diplomatic, strategic energy and economic terms. this is extremely dangerous, and it is better for us, the french to keep our distance from all this because it will not lead to peace. it will lead to war require kelly's opinion to beecher that i think this war, fatigue in europe and american society as well. people realizing that it is destroying them and it is unclear why and the name of

a wall that does not concern us in the name of the ukraine regime, which is extremely corrupt. and people say to themselves, we should not move towards ration of inflation, unemployment wall, for the sake of mister zalinski, his beautiful eyes for the sake of the corrupt juncture, that surrounds him. for the sake of those who want the drag isn't to war the americans or ashleigh on the land from the european commission. so yes, there is an obvious fatigue of society in france in europe everywhere. um it see over a daily kind if we want to seriously approach the issue of the such for pace, we should no, there are some very important points in you thomas eve, ukraine, the status of don bus, which needs to be seriously discussed these old issues. the expansion of nato, the annexation of new countries by the alliance and so on. it is likely that what is happening now will have political consequences at the election level. perhaps some european nations will strong for the more reasonable majority in the

government to be more inclined to dialogue with russia to search for peace to such for autonomy and independence from united states. i am convinced of this. i believe that this will happen in a number of european countries, including france, ter road trust in the american voting system. moscow was once again accused of interfering in u. s. elections this time in the mid term race, such a kick off this tuesday. speculation as now swirling in western media that russia is allegedly using bots to target democratic candidates with more on that, we're really undermines trust in the u. s. and lex election integrity here is our chief caleb law. ben. regular voting hasn't even started yet in the us mid term elections, but already we've got scandals about the potential result and voter distrust is riding high 15 pennsylvania republicans have sent a letter to state secretary chapman asking about the 240000 unverified ballots that

have been mailed out a day later, chapman game forward saying that the mid term election results will be delayed. it's really important for us to get accurate information about the election process in pennsylvania. so voters in the public know that, you know, when there's delays and counting, it doesn't mean that there's anything nefarious happening. it's just what the law is in pennsylvania now mail in balance of already been a source of concern. how do you actually prove that somebody else didn't mail in a ballot under another person's name? meanwhile, trust in the u. s. public, it for their election system is sinking. now, a poll taken by the new york times and coordination with st. college shows that 71 percent of americans feel like democracy is under threat. now you may feel like you've heard that before. back when trump one in the 2016 presidential election, his democratic rivals widely describe the results as

a threat to democracy. you can run the best campaign. you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you after trump was declared victorious, the flood gates were opened. there were all kinds of conspiracy theories, congressional investigation sanctions on russia. there was even an impeachment trial, who was it who was banging the gavel over those who objected as congress moved to certify the results, county is not an order valid, even with the marion over in china by america. i know today, and there's no date when the joint session. no debate vote is no debate. 60 years low debate and the manners are yes, joe biden was vice president back in those days presiding over the senate. now he's been elected president and those election results have also been contested, surprising, not really, but the fraud happened. the election in many ways was stolen,

but it begs the question, is it really that easy to steal an election in the united states? now with all these accusations of dishonesty being thrown around by both sides, it's not really shocking that as a result about 59 percent of the public maybe more did not have faith in the integrity of the us election system in 2020. but at least this idea that russia was somehow the nefarious puppet master was put to rest right. now americans who believe that donald trump was unfairly robbed of reelection, came up with charts and graphs and theories of their own. they even stormed the u. s. capital, a few people died and a lot more of gone to prison. democrats said the 2016 election was no good. republicans say the 2020 election was no good. and who do they blame each other? of course and nothing has really changed. there's now already a steady drumbeat about the possibility of fraud in the mid terms. there is no question and it's been right why they reported that there was widespread fraud and

irregularities across the country. many of us were warning about the fact the democrats unilaterally fundamentally altered our voting system. inside 90 days, we warn of the state of nevada was just simply not ready to give us a fully fair and secure election. if i was united states senator, on the day of the certification, i would have stood with senator cruz and senator scott and that small handful of senators who had the courage to stand up and say we, let's hold up on the certification of this election. hillary clinton is saying that the presidential election sat for 2 years from now is going to be stolen. right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. so with american politicians on both sides telling the public not to trust the election results, is it any more shocking that we're seeing more and more distrust of the election,

integrity from the u. s. public divisions among the u. s. power structure are getting deeper, that crack in the liberty bell is getting bigger and distrust and disgust is also brewing beneath the surface. caleb martin artsy new york state in this our for our new show modus operandi with ortiz manila chan. who investigates the perspective, the bricks block, and the damaging impacts of western sanctions? here is the preview. can you address for us the likelihood of argentina joining bricks? because western critics say this is a distant dream. i think it would be beneficial to all of the bricks nation that because the acronym is the initials of different countries are going to have to start working on how they renamed bricks are expanded with a bricks up, i guess if they add up, you know, that you've got brazil that has really been focus more on development of their technological and industrial expansion and not the another doing agriculture. i

don't think that the, the brazilians were really c argentina as a tough competitor, but maybe a good ally and expanding throughout the south american region, given china's official position on the war. and ukraine is neutral president. she has struck strong words against america sanctions that have had global consequences and a lot of blow back, at least economically we're seeing so far. china has not back down from there. not so tacit backing of russia. final thoughts on that. well, i think, you know, you look at the sanctions and the fact that they have not really hurt russia. they hurt america in the global economy. a lot more than they've heard russia. russia is looking for new markets for their oil exports. china is desperately wanting oil, they're wanting call. so i think there's a, there's a cultural affinity is being built on economics right now. and that is not necessary. good. again for america, or maybe even for the globe. ah,

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what he's got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk ah, the united states, in many western countries setting a title of good rationality. and i basically called what the u. s. is the u. s. position visa be sanctioned as a kind of mania. they keep repeating the same actions, and i think they're doing this because they want to show that they still ruined the world. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanction they have imposed, has shown as up the line. how much they don't room

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ah hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned in to modus operandi there show that explores the methods and patterns of u. s. foreign policy all around the world, and the history that reverberates in our lives today. this week we'll explore the conflict in ukraine and the failure to isolate after the westport and billions of dollars in aid and arms, the binded administration went on a pressure campaign to rally the global community to turn their backs on russia. was this successful? plus as the 2022 bricks virtual summit wrapped up. we learn the block may be adding an a to the group argentina now being considered for membership. we'll discuss what this means for the block as the e. you fast tracks ukraine's application to the trade union. all right, let's get in to the

emotions. the united states has been the number one benefactor to ukraine since the start of the conflict on february 24th. in may, the biden administration issued its biggest lump sum approval and the amount of $40000000000.00 us dollars. so far, the u. s. has issued about $55000000000.00 to ukraine in the form of weapons land lease programs, other types of monetary aid to below tamir zalinski and his government, despite the alleged corruption and other scandals plaguing ukraine. meanwhile, the e u has issued roughly 1000000000 combined euros in humanitarian and military aid. while the u. k has delivered just under $2000000000.00 us dollars. as prime minister boris johnson played with g 7 leaders in late june to quote, not give up on ukraine. all this as the head of the

e. u. ursula vander lay in fast tracks ukraine's application to join the block a slap in the face to turkey and reach up or to one whose country has been vying to join the group for decades. but 1st, let's take a look at what countries have turned their backs to the u. s. in the e u, in their unconditional support of ukraine. now, some of these countries have taken a position as strategic ambiguity, or have decided to strengthen relations with russia instead. our international correspondent has all the details increasingly turning russia into a garage state. if that was so at present to his plan, well, you can say it's working. russia has never been so isolated. that was back in march, when the full swing of anthea of russia hysteria was reaching its climax. but things have not gone according to plan. this map shows all of the countries who

have joy on 2 sections against russia. outside of europe, north america, australia, and new zealand, the least is short, and by far, a huge part of the world's population does not leave a nation sanctioning russia. and now, several months on russia is looking less and less isolated. in fact, europe and the united states are isolated from the rest of the world. russia's economy is stronger than he was before the start of the conflict in ukraine. in fact, the rubel continues to strengthen against the dollar. and brushes trading relationship with other nations are increasing. like in the energy sector, oil and gas exports to china have increased since february of this year. and other nations like brazil and south africa, part of the bricks block for which china hosted summit in june. so no indications appeal enough and joining the west. in fact,

more and more nations like argentina and iran are looking to join the bricks. now it looks like the west unity as well as it economies are crumbling, with more and more territory, inno crane falling to the russians and their allies. hungary, for example, has refused to engage in an oil and gas embargo against russia. arguing the shutting itself off from russia would mean economic ruin for the nation and its people. and inflation is devastating economies across europe as well as in north america and the rest of that man's world. so how long can the west hold out? and the supposed unity under great as russia continue, its advances in the grave for the ammo am brooklyn a felon. and joining us to discuss is mere dough. sony. he is the co director of peace visual dot net and currently at the anthropology department of the university

of western cape where he is completing his ph. d dissertation on how colonial relations continue to define our modern era some year. thank you so much for joining us. today so as we have seen, the u. s. is by far the greatest financial and military backer to ukraine thus far, much greater then the u and u. k. combined. how do you read this lopsided investment by the us? yeah, i mean, i think the 1st thing to say is that we should all be condemning rushes, invasion of the ukraine. it's a violation of international law. it's a violation of the un charter. so as i said, should be condemned by the international community and by the united states. but the united states itself is a country that perhaps has most violated international law in recent years and continues to violate international law even today. so when we look at invasion of iraq in 2003, when we look at the invasion of afghanistan in 2001, when we look at ongoing support for israel, which lately violates international law even to the point of murdering journalists

in cold blood so there can be no question that the u. s. isn't doing this because it is suddenly found some deep respect for human rights law and international law, right? it's doing this for its own reasons. many of which have to do with the stabilizing russia to mix, maintain u. s. had gemini and dominance. and that's not a, you know, saying that is not a conspiracy theory. so if we look back at the, the national security documents of the post world war 2 era, we see that maintaining dominance and germany is the official u. s. policy on for u. s. foreign policy, the number one objective. and has been, as i say, since about 950. so russia to their credit when it saw what the us id in libby i think particularly but even perhaps before that 2017 has made with the financial crisis. they anticipated that something like this might happen. so they sort of big, they anticipated that a conflict with the u. s. block may happen. so they took steps to sort of make

themselves sort of sanction proof. and the sanctions which were meant to hurt russia perhaps, or less effective than it might have been had the been implemented before 2007 or 2008 now. so we're not long after the war began, the buyer administration launched a major campaign to isolate russia, at least economically, that we saw by way of government sanctions like sanctions on critical major russian state own enterprises are prohibiting new investments in the russian federation as well as influence of the private sector, multinational corporations like mcdonald and nike, pulling out of the federation e you states and entities followed suit. but we didn't see the same type of response coming from asian states or those in the southern hemisphere. why didn't we see the res? same response out of them. well, i think it, it gets back to this question of hypocrisy. i mean, i didn't see, you know, people pulling out of the us when the us invaded iraq,

or when the u. s. a big invaded afghanistan. i don't see tears being shed wars ongoing on the african continent in central african republic in the democratic republic of congo and so on. many of these wars have points of origin in sort of european cotton conflicts that were started when your opinions occupied this continent. so i think asking, and this is one pretty much quoting the said african position here, asking countries like south africa to take a position in european context doesn't make much sense when the u. s. isn't really taking up per position on the issues that are important to south africa, for example. so, you know, and we can extend that even to foreign policy. we've seen that south africa would like to take a much stronger stand on, for example, the issue of the, the occupation of palestine, but it gets no support from the united states. so in that context, why should countries like south africa, you know, between the u. s. line, right, it's almost as if they think, well, if you're not paying attention to what we have to say,

why should we pay attention to what you're beckoning us for when you need us. now, what about the, the u. s. being disappointed from the response by china who has maintained, you know, something of a policy of strategic ambiguity. i think that's the, the term for 2022 on this war like china abstained from voting in the march. un general assembly resolution condemning russia for its action and ukraine. you know, the chinese have actually issued stern words about violence handling of this war and it sanctions against russia instead. thing as china is the 2nd largest economy in the world. therefore, the biggest player in bricks does china's position on the war in ukraine. does that reflect the sentiment of the other member states? do you think? yeah, i mean, here i think we have to, we have to just be brutally honest with ourselves. and to say that the bricks as

a block never really function like a block. and after recent elections, i mean, even be not the reason election. somebody's been there 89 years both and has been there 5 or 6 years, right? so, so after those elections, i don't think the bricks function like a political block at all. so and i think within the break, you have brazil, hon sonora, who's seems to be open the, asking us for help winning the upcoming election brazilian election against his rival lula. and of course, you have russia itself in bricks and then you have india, which would like to keep close ties both to russia and to the u. s. and i think china is on a whole different level, because as you say, it's the 2nd largest or by some measures even the largest economy in the world, but certainly the 2nd largest economy in the world. so it's a different, you know, these countries function differently for different reasons. yes, they all seem to be by and large following this line of strategic ambiguity. but i suspect that with a little bit of pressure, you know, brazil for example,

could be persuaded to take more. you pay us dance, india, and even south africa, i think, you know, are, are vulnerable to changing their stance. if circumstances warranted. the question would be if they change their stance individually or as a block, what would they get in return? and i don't think the us is willing to, i mean, i don't think wilson with us is willing to, doesn't see this as a negotiation. i think they just see, you should tell our lie to get nothing for an exchange. and if that's the u. s. just and then no, no one will be changing their line. but if the us is willing to bargain to negotiate, then yes it's, it's quite possible that somebody's countries may change their line, right? kind of a, you scratch our back and we'll scratch yours. now, as far as south africa is concerned, the south african ambassador to russia, ambassador or market to god, has raised concerns that the u. s. might implement some sort of bill that might harm the cooperate between cape town and moscow. he also worries that european nations might fall in line with the u. s. what do you suppose he is referring to?

as russia and south africa are concerned? what coercive measures might he be worried about the us doing against south africa? i mean, i think the big threat is this question of sanctions and trade and so on. and how is this howard's trade going to be effected? so russia is not by no means the biggest trading part of partner south africa, about about half a $1000000000.00 in trade goes from russia to south africa, and about the same amount goes from south africa to russia. and if you look at what south africa actually importing from russia, it's a lot of like, staple foods like, especially wheat, right? and as you know, the price of bread is something that all governments are worried about major revolutions. i'm going back to 1789 and the french revolution, but also in egypt more recently in 2011, these revolutions have been sparked by the price of bread going up, you know, 10200 or, or sometimes a 1000 percent. right? so when we're talking about, you know, the sanctions we're talking about perhaps shipments being stopped, as we've already seen,

to some extent. and we've seen food inflation to some extent already hitting if that goes higher than i think it's not just south africa, but the entire world should be worried about the, the ramifications of this war. absolutely, certainly a lot of things to still hash out as it pertains to this new multi polar world that we're dealing with. and this ongoing war between russia and ukraine. smear doe, sunny of peace, visual dot net, and the university of western cape. thank you so much for weighing in on this for us today. and when we return, we'll take a look at the possible expansion of bricks and what this could mean for us relations in south america. with a critically acclaimed author and international journalist, you won't want to miss it so stay tuned to the ammo will be right back. ah ah

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i aah! with the 2022 bricks, virtual summit now behind us this year hosted by beijing. chinese president, she's in ping underscored the importance of the group to remain open. he says, and to welcome like minded partners to join the bricks. family. this, as the economic block showed resilience in the face of the coven, 19 pandemic. with the chinese government displaying data from the 1st 5 months of 2022 showing china's total import export with other bricks. members growing a resounding 12 point one percent, year over year with a 20 percent rise in trade with russia and up 10 percent with india. and this year,

a non member state was invited to sit in on the summit. argentina is said to be considered for membership. president, alberto fernandez, expressing keen interest to join, but western observer say this is a distant dream, citing the bad timing for a 2nd south american country to join the block. due to the conflict between russia and ukraine as the 5 major emerging economies, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa are looking at expanding their membership to other countries. how does a growing bricks dominance compare to other economic powers like the u. s. r international correspondent has the analysis the growth of greeks has highlighting the importance of countries outside of the west in the development of strategies for mutual trade, health and counterterrorism. this year's 14th break, so meet theme was foster high quality breaks partnership, all sure, in

a new era for global development. but on the side of the main break scattering i briggs plus reading took place with officials from countries like the united arab emirates, saudi arabia, egypt, cosette, stan indonesia, argentina, nigeria, synagogue, and thailand and bells were ringing for argentina hoping to become the newest, permanent member of the group, but why would argentina bring to the table if a brick saw is created? this is not the 1st time argentina has joined that multilateral summit. the country participated in 20182014 as a guest. the current conversation has been on the table for some time, but during the 14 summit it became even more relevant recent declarations of the argentine and precedent for the man. this made it explicit their desire to join as

a precedent set. argentina was to join the space and offers its contribution as a member of it. and he added that. that is the to tional an economic weight of the brakes can become a factor of financial stability. and unprecedented fernandez tweeter account. he said, joining briggs would be paving away to a new piece for future. argentine is bolstering their relationship with briggs countries as president fernandez, made days later in person with the prime minister of india, strengthening their economic relations by exporting products like sunflower, oil and soybean to the asian country. a trade that amounts up to $5600000000.00 us dollars. argentina's relationship with other bricks members is looking into that future as well. there is no doubt that china has been investing in south american countries, specially with argentina between may 20,

21 and may 2022. the exports of china have increase by 49.4 percent while enforce increase up to $513000000.00. other chinese projects include the renovation of the big around no car gas railway connected to the china's belt and road initiative. and the coast shandey, solar park consider latin america's largest solar plant. perhaps what's comes to mind with a future brick saw is the current political stage of russia you seen now, in regard to the ongoing russian, a crane in conflict. argentina has been somewhat ambiguous. precedent for the man this asked for peaceful dialogue and political solution and none use of force. and nor do tina's foreign minister santiago, coffee idol. doesn't consider sanctions a mechanism to achieve peace, as he said in a press conference in april where brasil as one of the 5 members so breaks all eyes

are of how adding another south american member would benefit the already strong economic and political front then emerged in 2009 breaks or breaks saw only time will tell for the m o, i am brooks and salon and here to weigh in on what the addition of another latin america country to the bricks line up could mean is steve gill. he is an attorney and ceo of gil media and nashville, tennessee based public affairs, media and marketing company. he also happened to serve as the director of inter governmental affairs for the us trade representative's office. thank you so much for being with us today. steve. first, can you address for us the weekly hood of argentina joining bricks because western critics say this is a distant dream and point out that argentina would be jockeying for the same business deals that brazil, which is

a sitting member already has with china and india. there referencing things like soybean exports. what do you say to that? is there room in the block for a sec south american state? i think there's certainly room from an economic standpoint. i think it would be beneficial to all of the bricks nation. now because the acronym is the initials of different countries are going to have to start working on how they renamed bricks or expands it with a brick. so i guess if they add up, you know, if you got brazil that has really been focus more on development of their technological and industrial expansion and not the another doing agriculture. i don't think that the, the brazilians will really see argentina as a tough competitor in the agriculture arena, when they're really looking at how they can expanded to more technology. got embry or they've got airlines. they've got some space technology they're trying to develop. so i think as the brazilians look at it, they won't really see argentina as a competitor, but maybe a good ally, it expanding throughout the south american region. so you say plenty of room for

another member. now what is argentine a stand again, by joining bricks? i mean, any benefits that would differ from what they get from the g 20 while argentina is obviously a strong b producer. and china, particularly coming out of the kobe restrictions, is still seeing an expansion in their demand for b. right now they get a lot from chile, they get a lot from australia. they aren't getting as much in these days from, from the u. s. and the demand for beef in, in joe and china is actually much more to, to boil it rather than to have it real like steaks. like a lot of folks do. so you have a different demand for the type of be product and using the whole cal, so to speak. so i think gina could certainly benefit from the expansion of their beef exports into china among others. yeah, definitely. none of that animal goes to waste outside of the u. s. steve. now, earlier this year on an official trip to europe, president fernandez of argentina told the german d w. news outlet that he thinks of himself as an origin time european ist. and that

china, despite being a great economist, power, has very little cultural ties with latin guy has no history there. does this lend any insight into what he thinks about the block, especially as china was the chair country to this year's brick summit? you know, it's in stay nearly 30 years ago when i was a director of governmental affairs, the us trade representative during the last of the 1st white house, 1st of clinton. i and other proponents were really encouraging the us to look more north south, not to abandon the east west perspective economically better, really look more north and south and expand and america's kind of trading partner the time we were seeing. the brits in europe do sort of the predecessor to the economic union of, of the you. i felt that others did that if we expanded our view more south, you could have created an economic trading giant of south central and north america . and unfortunately that didn't happen. so i think that the argentine frozen is

exactly right that if argentine are good perhaps take the lead and follow a european model and try to gather more of the south american central american countries together is trading partners. i think you can see an economic boom and, wow, if we had done that 30 years ago at economic prosperity in the south, you know the plot of illegals into the u. s. they're not coming here because they want to be americans. but because there's lack of prosperity in their own countries, if we had expanded that prosperity south 30 years ago, it would be a model of how to do the, the world economic and political balance in a north south view rather than just east west. now on that note, steve, the last thing here, given china's official position on the war in ukraine, is neutral president. she has struck strong words against america sanctions that have have global consequences and a lot of blow back, at least economically we're seeing so far. china has not back down from there. not

so tacit backing of russia. final thoughts on that? well, i think, you know, you look at the sanctions and the fact that they have not really heard russia, they heard america and global economy a lot more than they've heard russia. russia is looking for new markets for their oil exports. china is desperately wanting oil. they're wanting call, so i think there's a, there's a cultural affinity is being built on economics right now. and that is not history good. again for america, or maybe even for the globe. because again, china's aggressions throughout the world are going to continue. and i think after this, ukraine war comes to an end, you're going to have to reset a lot of things, including the role of russia with europe, the role of china in the u. s. there's going to be a lot of a fix up make up is going to have to happen after this war is finally concluded. at some point. yeah, they're gonna have to look beyond just the next few months here, the binding administration. that is, and perhaps maybe pick up a phone call from steve gill. i always appreciate your expertise steve. gil, thank you so much. thanks,

michelle. ah, well, that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi there show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for tuning and we'll see you again next week to figure out the ammo. ah ah

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